OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19373

melting

/ˈmɛltɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
colicuación • derretimiento • fundición • fusión • licuación • licuefacción
The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air ab…
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